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Paranormal News and Views for September 22, 2012

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Underwater mystery circles near Japan

Underwater mystery circles near Japan

Photo: Yoji Ookata

Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Mysterious underwater 'crop circles' discovered off the coast of Japan
Photographer Yoji Ookata has spent the last 50 years exploring and documenting his discoveries off the coast of Japan. Recently while on a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country, Ookata spotted something he had never encountered before: rippling geometric sand patterns nearly six feet in diameter almost 80 feet below sea level. He soon returned with colleagues and a television crew from the nature program NHK to document the origins what he dubbed the "mystery circle."..

GHOSTS, POLTERGEISTS, HAUNTINGS:

Stories that go 'bump' in the night
One night, while drawing the curtains on her apartment windows, Deborah Abela saw her one and only ghost. In the pitch black, kneeling on her bed, she saw a face. Her beloved but frail nanna had died five or so years before but there she was, younger and watchful...

Paranormal Witness: The true story behind the movie The Haunting In Connecticut
While there has been some skepticism about the stories Carmen Snedeker and her family have told about their time in a haunted house, no one can argue that the stories themselves are chilling. Author Ray Garton wrote a book about their experiences, In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, but has since distanced himself form their claims. Nevertheless, the stories that inspired the film The Haunting in Connecticut were the centerpiece of the latest episode of Paranormal Witness...

Is Thomas Kinkade haunting his mansion?
Could the late "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade's mansion be haunted? Is there danger lurking behind those glowing, candlelit cottage windows? The Mercury News reports some strange activity at his mansion in the San Jose suburb of Monte Sereno, like cars being vandalized, doors being tampered with and a break-in in the attic that left ghostly footprints in the dust...

MYSTERIOUS CREATURES:

If you haven't heard of Idaho State University's Jeff Meldrum, then you don't know squatch
Academia is a lonely place for Sasquatch hunter Jeff Meldrum. Meldrum, who teaches anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, might be the only college professor in the U.S. researching and publishing work on Bigfoot - or at least the only one putting his name to the subject...

Russian scientists claim lake is home to Siberian Loch Ness monster
Russian academics are calling for a scientific probe into claims of a 'Siberian Loch Ness monster' in one of the world's remotest lakes. Researchers using underwater scanners have found evidence of 'Nesski' - measuring up to 33 feet in length - in the deep waters of Lake Labynkyr, says a new report...

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